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Post Raciality in the Obama Era

Post Raciality in the Obama Era. Why Race is an important issue more than ever By Marlene Ramirez. What does the term Post Racial mean?. Envisions a society in which racial issues or tensions no longer exist

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Post Raciality in the Obama Era

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  1. Post Raciality in the Obama Era Why Race is an important issue more than ever By Marlene Ramirez

  2. What does the term Post Racial mean? • Envisions a society in which racial issues or tensions no longer exist • A new term that came into existence after the Inauguration of our first African American president, Barack Obama

  3. Historical Context of Colonial America and Beyond • The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade brought more than 12 million African Americans • The slave trade was fueled by the scientific racism of it’s day, SystemaNaturae being on example

  4. Emancipation Proclamation - 1960

  5. So what now?

  6. War on Drugs (1984 – present) • War on drugs began during the Reagan Administration in response to the 1980’s Crack epidemic • Urban and low income areas were especially targeted by police enformcement

  7. Prison Industrial Complex • Is a term used to refer to the relation between punishment and commerce • Noted Scholars and contemporary academics have drawn comparison between Prison Labor and Slave Labor.

  8. Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates • African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population • African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites • Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population

  9. Racial Disparities in Sentencing • About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit drug • 5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites • African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense. • African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project)

  10. School to Prison Pipeline How mass incarceration in the 21st century affects minorities

  11. Effects on Schooling • Your education is only as good as the neighborhood you reside in • Property taxes determine how much funding a school in a particular area receives. “'Gifted students,' says Dr. Parks [superintendent of East St. Louis* schools], 'are everywhere in East St. Louis, but their gifts are lost to poverty and turmoil and the damage done by knowing they are written off by their society.” -JonothonKozol’s Savage Inequalities

  12. So why is this important?How is this relevant to society today?

  13. Can we really overcome 500 years of oppression within 50 years?

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